Windows 10: Backup and Restore Microsoft Edge Favorites in Windows 10

I'm glad it could help heschelpop, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

 

But how do we backup the favourites to an HTML file like in days of olde, so we can use our favourites in another browser that isn't Edge..?!

 

Hello mlauzon, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

You can use the method in the tutorial below to export your Microsoft Edge favorites to a .htm file.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

I ended up finding that using a Google search while searching for ways to export them, had I known it was on here in the first place then I would have gotten it sooner.

Edge is now no longer being used, plus within the next month I will be getting rid of Win10 on this 4 year old laptop and replacing it with Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa".

 

Is there any way using the Edge folder under Packages to capture the entire state Edge was in on another PC: including history, tabs etc.?

 

Hello eelpout, *Smile

I haven't tested this, but you may be able to do so by copying the folder below, and replacing it on another PC.

I would recommend to create a restore point before doing so in case you may need to do a system restore to undo it.

%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

 

yeah, I should have mentioned, I already tried that and Edge refused to run. *Wink

 

OK this has been very useful. Thank you.

But my Edge favorites disappear. On their own. I open Edge, they are there. Then a while later, I notice nothing happens when I click on them. Close Edge, reopen Edge, gone.

Makes me wanna go back to Chrome, but I swore fealty to Microsoft

Any ideas?

 

Hello Vinnie2k, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you already have a backup of your favorites, you might see if resetting Microsoft Edge to default then restoring your favorites may help.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

If I could kiss you I would. Seriously, wow. Thank you! *Biggrin

 

How about a virtual hug? *Smile

 

I did the steps, and now, when I click on the three lines and select Favorites...there is nothing there...period. If I try to do CTRL D or manually Add Favorites, I don't get to save because there is no favorites folder listed in the menu. Odd...I tried re copying the DataStore folder over and nada...

Thoughts?

 

Hello RedLitnig, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Which steps did you do and what build number of Windows 10 do you have installed? If it's not at least build 10565 or later, then would be because the old save location of Favorites would not transfer to the new location using this method.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...mber-find.html

 

I did a clean install... well sort of. I wiped my computer, loaded Win 8.1, then ran the Media Tool to upgrade to 10. Everything was fine, until I copied over the DataStore folder.

 

In that case you could use the tutorial below to reset Microsoft Edge to default to fix this, and try again if you like. If it causes an issue for you again, then you can just reset again.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html